Manage Team Drive users and activity

This feature is available with G Suite Enterprise, Enterprise for Education, Drive Enterprise, Business, Education, and Nonprofits edition. Compare editions

As a G Suite administrator, you can manage the Team Drives in your organization and the members of a Team Drive. You can also migrate folders to a Team Drive and perform other tasks.

Note: Team Drives is turned on by default for new G Suite accounts. Organizations with G Suite accounts before July 2017 may need to turn Team Drives on for their domain or specific organizational units. Team Drives is also enabled for accounts upgrading from G Suite Basic to Business.

You can enable or disable a user’s ability to create new Team Drives for specific organizational units, such as a sales department or regional office.

After Team Drives is enabled, any user in that organizational unit can create a Team Drive.

Important notes

This feature is available with G Suite Enterprise, Enterprise for Education, Drive Enterprise, Business, Education, and Nonprofits edition. Compare editions

Wait for up to an hour after turning on Team Drives for changes to be applied. Clicking the Create button before then may result in an error. If this occurs, please wait and try again later.

When Team Drives creation is disabled for an organizational unit, users in that organization can’t create new Team Drives, but they can be added to other Team Drives both within and outside of your domain.

All Team Drives in a domain are set to the domain's top-level organization settings.

For example, if external sharing is disabled for the user's organization unit but allowed at the top-level domain, the user will be able to share documents in Team Drives with people outside the company.

As a G Suite administrator, you can view and manage the Team Drives in your organization.

Notes

To add multiple members, we recommend adding Google groups. Separate multiple email addresses with a comma, but if an address is invalid, the action will fail and the error message will not specify the invalid address.

If you remove all members from a Team Drive, the Team Drive is kept but not accessible. Add new members to the Team Drive to restore access to the files.